NARRATIVAS FUTURAS. AS RUÍNAS DO RURAL
Galicia, 2023-205

Narrativas Futuras. As ruínas do rural é un proxecto artístico e de investigación que explora a ruína como espazo de memoria e de posibilidade no rural galego. A través da imaxe, o son e os obxectos atopados, buscamos resignificar estas paisaxes esquecidas e convertelas nun lugar aberto para imaxinar outros futuros. O proxecto nace do traballo conxunto de Alba Casas, artista multidisciplinar, e Adrián Riveiro, músico e compositor, quen poñen en diálogo as súas prácticas para activar novas narrativas arredor do territorio, a súa memoria e as súas transformacións.

Na exposición Narrativas Futuras, o son xoga un papel central como ferramenta de memoria e de ficción especulativa. A partir de obxectos atopados en ruínas do rural, gravamos e recompuxemos sons para dar forma a unha peza sonora e audiovisual que leva o mesmo nome do proxecto. Esta obra, que da nome a exposición e creada xunto a Adrian Riveiro, propón unha viaxe imaxinaria cara futuros posibles, activando as resonancias ocultas do que parecía abandonado. A peza dialoga coa escultura Arredor do lume (2025), creada a partir dunha antiga cociña de ferro. Este obxecto, tan presente nas casas do rural galego, evocaba o lugar onde as nosas avoas compartían contos e historias á calor do lume. Recuperando esa tradición oral, transformámola aquí nun espazo de narración do porvir: un lume que xa non fala só do pasado, senón que acende novas imaxes do futuro.

Narrativas Futuras. As ruínas do rural is an artistic and research project that explores the ruin as a space of memory and possibility in the Galician countryside. Through image, sound, and found objects, we seek to re-signify these forgotten landscapes and turn them into open grounds for imagining other futures. The project emerges from the collaboration between Alba Casas, multidisciplinary artist, and Adrián Riveiro, musician and composer, who bring their practices into dialogue to activate new narratives around the territory, its memory, and its transformations.

The sculptural pieces created by Alba Casas for the exhibition Narrativas Futuras. The Ruins of the Rural emerge from the collection and transformation of objects found in abandoned spaces. Each object preserves the marks of time, the fractures, and the scars of its history. When used in the production of the works, these remnants become living matter, bringing the ruin into the present. It is not only about recovering fragments, but about activating a new life within them: restoring, recomposing, or intervening in their form, while respecting the memory they hold and at the same time granting them new possibilities. In this way, the forgotten object becomes both a witness to the past and a seed of a future to come. The sculptures act as bridges: between the materiality of ruin and our present, between the silence of abandonment and the creative force that emerges from what once seemed lost.

As pezas escultóricas realizadas por Alba Casas para a exposición Narrativas Futuras. As ruínas do rural xorden da recollida e transformación de obxectos atopados en espazos abandonados. Cada obxecto conserva as marcas do tempo, as fracturas e as cicatrices da súa historia. Ao ser utilizados para a producción das pezas estes restos convértense en materia viva, trasladando a ruína ao presente. Non se trata só de recuperar fragmentos, senón de activar neles unha nova vida: restauralos, recompoñelos ou intervir sobre a súa forma, respectando a memoria que gardan e ao mesmo tempo outorgándolles outras posibilidades. Así, o obxecto esquecido pasa a ser testemuña dun pasado e, ao mesmo tempo, semente dun futuro por vir. As esculturas funcionan como pontes: entre a materialidade da ruína e o noso tempo, entre o silencio do abandono e a potencia creativa que agroma do que parecía perdido.

The sculptural pieces created by Alba Casas for the exhibition Narrativas Futuras. The Ruins of the Rural emerge from the collection and transformation of objects found in abandoned spaces. Each object preserves the marks of time, the fractures, and the scars of its history. When used in the production of the works, these remnants become living matter, bringing the ruin into the present. It is not only about recovering fragments, but about activating a new life within them: restoring, recomposing, or intervening in their form, while respecting the memory they hold and at the same time granting them new possibilities. In this way, the forgotten object becomes both a witness to the past and a seed of a future to come. The sculptures act as bridges: between the materiality of ruin and our present, between the silence of abandonment and the creative force that emerges from what once seemed lost.

O día da súa inauguración, a peza presentouse a través dunha mostra sonora e dun coloquio performativo, onde a escoita, o diálogo e a imaxinación colectiva expandiron a obra cara a unha experiencia compartida.

On the day of its opening, the piece was presented through a sound performance and a performative colloquium, where listening, dialogue, and collective imagination expanded the work into a shared experience.